We have been blessed with an amazing gift: our bodies. However, we are our own worst critics. It is easy to count the numerous flaws we find with our appearance. Whether we view ourselves as fat, ugly ...
It took me a long time to understand that my body confidence journey did not need to fit into someone else’s idea of self love. For years I believed that loving my body meant I had to accept every ...
Self-love is a rollercoaster where sometimes you're on the up and up and others you feel like you're crashing down. Thankfully, a confidence boost is right around the corner with these quotes full of ...
I spent the night before I left for winter break crying to my friends. I opened the floodgates, ignoring my anxieties and sharing my recent body image issues. I have come incredibly far with my ...
In a world where social media and societal expectations dominate our perception of self-worth, learning to love your body has never been more important. Everywhere we turn, we are confronted with ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There is a day we New Yorkers quietly celebrate, that we don’t have a name for. It’s the morning when I can feel the earth peel ...
As many of you know, I struggled with my own eating disorder for over two decades, but have fortunately healed myself over the past few years. A Psychology Today reader recently reached out to me and ...
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself. —Simone de Beauvoir Source: cimages by Canva Pro Most of us probably already know intuitively that body image affects our ...
"Sometimes my son will touch my stomach and point at my stretch marks. 'What are these?' he’ll ask. 'Evidence,' I’ll respond.
In 2008, on my 20th birthday, I made a decision that would change my life forever: to lose weight. It was something I had attempted many times beforespecifically, by eating low-cal cereal bars twice a ...
“Sometimes, loving yourself and your body means honoring your desire to make a change,” the 23-year-old said Jazz Jennings/Instagram Jazz Jennings is setting the record straight after her recent posts ...
There is a day we New Yorkers quietly celebrate, that we don’t have a name for. It’s the morning when I can feel the earth peel back her blanket and stretch out for the first time in months. For once, ...